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nugget of truth

noun

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  1. A small amount of truth in a generally untrue statement.

    • Even in its moderate form, this argument presupposes that factual elements can be plucked out of panegyric as nuggets of truth isolated from the dross of empty verbiage.
    • This book identifies twelve teachings that sound plausible because they each contain a nugget of truth.
    • Unfortunately, there is a nugget of truth to the notion of black and Hispanic tensions but, like politics, the friction tends to be very local.

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